Affordability to Health Insurance

Unit 6 Project Description

Blueprint for Progress

This week’s project is your first version of the essay component of your final project. You will present your big idea in a persuasive and research supported manner and include your revised thesis statement. The style of the essay should be appropriate to an academic audience: avoid slang and stay in third person, and use the proper APA citation and formatting style.

For this project, review the feedback you received for the Units 2 and 4 projects as well as the Invention Lab comments relating to the ideas, plans, and prewriting exercises you have completed so far. Expand these ideas into a first draft. You do not have to implement all of the comments from your instructor or classmates, but you should pay attention to them and follow the advice you feel will help build a strong paper.

Your draft must be at least three to five pages long (not including the title page and references page) and contain a brief introduction and conclusion. Make certain that your introduction includes your revised thesis statement, one to two sentences that identify your big idea, the problem the big idea will address, and why your solution/idea should be implemented. You will also have cohesive body paragraphs that provide a specific, focused analysis of your main points supported by the sources you found during the research process.

You must include at least three sources in this draft (in the text itself, not simply in the references page), one of which must be an academic source from Kaplan’s Library. Your sources, of course, must include in-text citations in the body of the paper as well as full citations in the references page following the APA format. If you do not include the appropriate citations, your paper will be considered plagiarized.

In addition to at least three pages of text, you must also include both a title page and references. These pages are in addition to, not included in, the three to five required pages. You can view models of APA formatted essays in the Writing Center’s reading, Sample APA Research Paper, and unit 4 includes links to numerous Writing Center resources on citation style.

Presentation Draft

Choose a technology and create a presentation with that technology. Technologies can be combined, such as adding audio clips to a slide presentation. Even if you are not visually creative, the message of your big idea should be clear in the method and outcome of the presentation. No matter what form of technology you use, it should meet the following requirements:

• Overall message is clear and effective
• Minimally, five facts, arguments, and/or insights are presented
• Audience is considered in technology choice and design
• Research sources are cited in APA format
• Presentation is considered original (except for cited material)

Affordability to Health Insurance-If your presentation is stored on the Internet, rather than submitted by attaching a file to the discussion string, be sure to include the URL for your presentation. Make sure that you save a copy of your submitted assignment so that you can revise it for the final project in Unit 9. You are submitting this assignment via the threaded discussion labeled “Presentation Draft” in the left navigation portion of this unit.

Tips

Keep the following tips in mind when choosing the delivery method and designing the presentation

• Choose technology wisely. Although many of the suggested technologies for a presentation may seem interesting, try to choose a technology that you can learn and use in the limited time frame of this unit.
• Use your strengths. Not everyone has the same creative abilities. Assess your strengths and use a corresponding technology. If you are not visually creative, then consider writing a commercial or podcast recording; if you are not confident in your abilities to use technology, try creating a slide presentation, which is a matter of inserting text and graphics into . MS PowerPoint or Impress.
• Plan out the project. Whether you create a storyboard or a simple outline of what to include in the presentation, this prewriting will keep you from pursuing tangents or trying to cover too much information.
• Start out simple. Too many moving aspects or graphics will distract the audience from the message; scale back when you’re not sure. Avoid the use of “cute” or irrelevant clip-art.
• Design for your audience. The expectations and needs of your audience should influence your decisions; for example, if teenage boys are the audience, then building a video game with cute talking animals may not interest the audience.
• Motivate the audience. Beyond a visual or audio impact, the presentation needs to inform the audience about your argument and/or ideas on the topic. After viewing the presentation, the audience should take an active interest in the information by wanting to learn more or take action on what was learned.

Respond to peers with constructive and supportive feedback about the clarity of the message and use of technology to convey their message. Try not to focus as much on the creative abilities of the student, but rather the effectiveness of their presentation of their big idea in a visual or audio format.

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